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by gok 7y ago
You don’t understand the difference between: A. Actively controlling an exchange rate through foreign debt purchasing and capital controls to sidestep rules on tariffs, and B: Having someone float an idea to work around a bizarre loophole i
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The perverse incentives produced by institutional division(thetransportpolitic.com)
5 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
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by gok 7y ago
Wow talk about win-win. Amazon gets electric vans and Rivian gets ~$10B in expected revenue, which increases the value of Amazon's stake in Rivian.
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An Exclusive Look Inside Apple's A13 Bionic Chip(wired.com)
1 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
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by gok 7y ago
Well the alternative is what we have now: "how much does it cost to get a reliable connection during busy periods?" "There is no amount of money that can buy that."
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by gok 7y ago
It remains frustrating that no provider offers a plan which more accurately reflects how the cell network functions. When your local cells is not near full load, downstream bandwidth should cost nothing over your fixed monthly access fee. W
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by gok 7y ago
The business plan is interesting: https://www.fcgov.com/broadband/files/broadband-business-pla... Key points: they're expecting this effort cost $130-$150m, not pay for itself until 2033 or so, and only get a
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by gok 7y ago
The major cost drivers the new stations, not the tunnels. The Second Avenue subway has 16 new stations; Crossrail is only building 10 new stations. That said, it's not really a surprise that construction costs are cheaper in the UK. Me
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Overton: A Data System for Monitoring and Improving Machine-Learned Products(arxiv.org)
7 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
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by gok 7y ago
Hell, that factory can produce an AmazonBasics-branded version of your product too.
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The Language of Congress(congress.pudding.cool)
1 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
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by gok 7y ago
It's twice the price of a flight, and with planes you can pick between 3 major airports in SFBA and 5 in LA, which are probably closer to the locations you're really going between.
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U2F ECDSA Vulnerability(sites.google.com)
2 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
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by gok 7y ago
> There is almost no cost to the platform developers to add new APIs To anyone who has ever spent time working on a platform API this is deeply insulting. > …the costs are borne by the application developers. Yes, whereas with cross-p
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by gok 7y ago
Exactly 50% in California, interesting
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China Lost the United States First(foreignpolicy.com)
1 points by gok 7y ago|0 comments
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by gok 7y ago
His opinion is fine; the problem is that this article is being purposely deceptive about what his opinion is.
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by gok 7y ago
Right so consider that you could also sell spare power from your car back to the grid when demand is high and you don't need to drive. Seems like another good benefit, particularly if the grid is prone to brownout (not sure if yours is
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by gok 7y ago
You'd install solar panels solely to charge your car? You have no other uses for electricity? And you'd be content to just let the power go to waste while the car isn't at home charging?
980.
by gok 7y ago
Low cost EVs will indeed be what kills ICE cars, particularly in the developing world where they can double as general electricity storage. That said: > Just as Tesla has had its doubters among mainstream auto industry-watchers, the elec
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BNSF leads the charge on testing battery electric locomotive(bnsf.com)
2 points by gok 7y ago|1 comments
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by gok 7y ago
> What we currently have is an email to all "contractors" stating the rate starting today is X/mile. By that logic all taxi drivers are employees of the cities of their medallion, because cities set the taxi driver rates.
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by gok 7y ago
The big problem with extended grapheme clusters by default is that it changes behavior completely as Unicode spec changes. So Swift strings are nearly guaranteed to change their default behavior between versions.
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by gok 7y ago
Ok I mixed up the DX and SX; at least the DX has the fp hardware. Still, many of the x87 instructions you'd want to use to implement pow() take hundreds of cycles on a 486, so I'd bet it would take tens of usec to do each pow().
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by gok 7y ago
That 500 microsecond number is from a 1993 paper on 1991 hardware (a 50 MHz 486DX-50). Your HFT code wouldn't load on it, and in 500usec it would be lucky to do a single float^float power operation.
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by gok 7y ago
I'm a little confused about the title because the first paper is from 2014. It's also too bad this doesn't mention any traditional HMM-based ASR techniques, as HMMs continue to be used on many SOTA systems, particularly those
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by gok 7y ago
Do they seriously think this will lead to anything except Uber and Lyft leaving California, putting hundreds of thousands of drivers out of work?
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by gok 7y ago
> Do you have numbers to back that up? Hm hard to come up with a number that shows JS optimizations are hard, but you can peruse a collection of Javascript engine CVEs: https://github.com/tunz/js-vuln-db Notice how
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by gok 7y ago
Javascript engines gave up on interpreters too quickly. JITs have been a huge source of security holes, and the language is so huge now that verifying the correctness of JS optimizations is extremely hard. JS was never meant to be a high pe
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by gok 7y ago
It's staggering how systematically broken IOKit remains.

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